SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 123
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In some communities, certain incidents of violence reflect harmful beliefs towards particularly marginalized girls, including those with disabilities or albinism, who may be accused of witchcraft. As a result, those girls endure stigmatization and are the victims of serious acts of violence, neglect, abandonment, mutilation and murder.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children